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How can Reina's wages playing or not be justified , the damage done by previous regimes is for all to see its a total utter scandal can't believe there hasn't been a bigger outcry over this .

Quite simple Faz going back to when he negotiated or was offered a new deal many moons ago, he was rightly or otherwise considered the best or in the top layer of keepers in the world. So was paid accordingly in a competitive sporting marketplace.

If the reports are to be believed Barcelona still believe so too.

As for your initial rant about him trying to instigate a move or his agent. Rogers has now openly admitted he or FSG wanted him out due to money. Dunk has also posted a story on it which I suggest you read as it completely puts to bed the accusations you made.

Have you only just learned how much professional footballers get paid???

You're gonna lose your shitt when you realise what the real top earners take home. God help you.

I know how much footballers earn , yes a top striker or a Steven gerrard but a keeper should never be on this sort of money and I don't care how good people think he is this sort of contract is scandal .

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I have said more than once on this forum that I believe in cost control and good all round management. There is no contradiction between that and competing effectively in the transfer market for the quality you need in order to close the quality gap on your competitors, quite the contrary. I’m sure it’s obvious to most on here that those teams with the highest quality are the teams that most regularly finish at the top of the heap.
If you accept that, then you might also accept that failure to compete in the transfer market for the required quality, when those above you are adding quality is very likely to leave you at best, where you currently stand and at worst further down the pecking order.
The kind of frugality that leads to that behaviour is bad management and in the long run can put you out of business.

you have to pay the going rate, benayoun is on 92k per week...

the nuts and bolts of this deal is plain to see reina was of to barca until valdez decided to see the last year of his contract out we got a new goalie on the strength of him deciding he was already going and then reina became stuck because we had paid 9mill for a keeper that wasn't gonna be happy sitting on the bench and with it being world cup year not that reina will get any playing time in brazil any way the only option was for him to go to a club on loan until barca take him next season

Rodgers is not in charge. The main reason he got the job is because he is a yes man. The main reason they didnt even interview Rafa was because he would have stood up to them. Rodgers cant believe his luck and does not want to rock the boat. Our transfer dealings are the stuff of pantomine and an amateur one at that. When Mignolet starts impersonating david James 110K per week will seem cheap and Brent will look like an even bigger mug(if thats possible). Rodgers and FSG out.

We don't have the money to buy Fernandinho, Navas, Negredo and Jovetic! We aren't in the Champions League. We don't have moneybags owners willing to throw away cash. We haven't competed for a title in years!

Its fine to say those with the bigger investments can compete easier, but it doesn't mean it works. If 4 clubs spend big, there is still only one club that wins the title. We are not gearing for a title challenge right now. We are making ground on our nearest competitors for 4th, in my eyes, and if the window is still open and we are said to have a fair amount of money to spend, I say lets be optimistic, rather than dour because our owners don't want to throw money down the drain like Dalglish and Comolli, Hodgson and Purslow, and even to an extent Benitez and Houllier have done in the past. Arsenal have signed a player for free. Spurs have signed another midfielder, and a winger (when they desperately need a striker) and we have signed 3 potentially first XI players and a youngster with pedigree from Sevilla/Barca B. AND, we still have 42 days to spend big on 2 players we need.

It is like everyone is playing hopscotch, and trying to decide on every jump what it all means. It is impossible if you don't take into account everything that has happened before, and what we have now. I posted every player we have sold under FSG, and hardly any of them would make our XI now. I posted that we have spent a net of £75m in 2 seasons - and one poster said that was "frugal to abject failure" and you're suggesting that spending like this is bad management and that it is not enough. HOW!?

None of them are worth the weekly wage, not a single one of them.

I'm not going to defend Reina's wage, but at the time of his last contract he was one of the better keepers in the world, still is, just needs a fresh start (Van der sar comes to mind)

Agree or disagree, there's no point in us getting in a barny over it, it's in the past now and Rodgers has put it right. Case closed.